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Statistical and Documentary: Exportation
During 1894 : Pesetas. (Twenty cents.) Importations in Cuba from Spain 37,463,110 Exportation from Cuba to Spain 117,061,881 Difference in favor to export 79,598,771 Commerce with Porto Rico:
Importation in the Island 21,580,125 Exportation from Spain 28,678,899 Difference in favor of export 7,098,774 Commerce with the Philippine Isles:
Importations from the archipelago 17,994,838 Exportation from Spain 28,581,122 Difference in favor of export 10,586,284 The principal articles Cuba sends to Spain are:
Sugar, 12 millions pesetas; leaf tobacco, money in silver, cocoa, cigars, and cigarettes.
What Spain sends:
Cotton fabrics 21,000,000 pesetas. Shoes 20,000,000 pesetas. Wine 8,000,000 pesetas. Oil, soap, oats, wheat, flour 3,000,000 pesetas. Preserved foods, candles, woolen goods, paper for cigarettes and wrapping, garbangos, sausage, and chocolate.
Porto Rico sends chiefly:
Coffee 12,000,000 Sugar 6,000,000 Tobacco 1,000,000 Spain to Porto Rico:
Fabrics 9,000,000 Shoes 3,500,000 Soap, candles, and oil. Constantly objections are urged to the release of Cuba from Spanish servitude, on the ground that the majority of the people are colored. The tables following give the conclusive answer to this line of observation: SYNOPSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL CENSUSES OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA FROM 1768 TO 1879. Years. Whites. Colored Freedmen. Colored Slaves Grand Total. Males. Females Total. 1768 109,415 22,740 45,000 27,000 72,000 204,155 1774 96,440 30,847 28,771 15,562 44,333 171,620 1787 96,610 29,217 32,800 17,540 50,340 176,167 1792 133,553 55,930 47,330 37,126 84,456 273,939 1804 234,000 60,000 75,000 63,000 138,000 432,000 1810 274,000 108,600 130,000 87,400 217,400 600,000 1817 276,689 119,221 137,115 102,579 239,694 635,604 1819 239,830 97,000 135,000 81,203 216,203 553,033 1825 325,000 100,000 170,000 120,000 290,000 715,000 1827 311,051 106,494 183,290 103,652 286,942 704,487 1830 332,352 113,125 208,120 102,098 310,218 755,695 1841 418,291 152,838 281,250 155,245 436,495 1,007,624 1846 425,769 149,226 201,011 122,748 323,759 898,754 1849 457,133 164,410 199,177 124,720 323,897 945,440 1850 479,490 171,733 200,000 122,519 322,519 973,742 1852 492,879 169,316 197,425 124,422 321,847 984,042 1855 498,752 185,444 222,400 137,589 359,989 1,044,185 1857 560,161 177,824 222,355 149,755 372,110 1,110,095 1859 589,777 175,274 220,999 143,254 364,253 1,129,304 1860 632,797 189,848 224,076 152,708 376,784 1,199,429 1862 793,484 232,433 218,722 151,831 370,553 1,396,470 1867 833,157 248,703 203,412 141,203 344,615 1,426,475 1869 797,596 238,927 217,300 145,988 363,288 1,399,811 1874 856,177 263,420 209,432 117,343 326,775 1,446,372 1877 963,175 272,478 112,192 86,902 199,094 1,434,747 1879 965,735 287,827 89,517 81,570 171,087 1,424,649 CENSUS OF CUBA, PUBLISHED DECEMBER 31, 1887 Total population 1,631,687 Whites 1,111,303 Negroes 520,684 Provinces. Whites. Colored. Total. Per ct. of Col'd Race. Havana 344,417 107,511 451,928 26 Pinar del Rio 167,160 58,731 225,891 26 Matanzas 143,169 116,401 259,578 45 Santa Clara 244,345 109,777 354,122 31 Puerto Principe 54,232 13,557 67,789 20 Santiago de Cuba 157,980 114,339 272,379 42 Totals 1,111,303 520,684 1,631,687 Calculating as the average percent. of colored, 21.
Provinces. Inhabitants. Square Kilometres. Density. Havana 451,928 8,610 52.49 Matanzas 259,578 8,486 30.59 Pinar del Rio 225,891 14,967 15.09 Puerto Principe 67,789 32,341 2.10 Santa Clara 354,122 23,083 15.34 Santiago de Cuba 272,379 35,119 7.75 Totals 1,631,687 122,606 13.31 The papers following have a vigor and accuracy of application that is acceptable in confirmation of their authenticity:
PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF CUBA. [Received by the Junta in New York from Senor Salvador Cisneros, President of the Republic of Cuba.] Nothing is more difficult at the outset of an enterprise than to maintain it uniformly deserving the world's approval. The people of Cuba are now face to face with such a difficulty. They were born under the rule of a nation universally regarded as tyrannical and ambitious. They have never learned the lesson of governing themselves. Now, in their struggle for independence, they have not only to maintain the stress of warfare, but also to learn how to govern themselves. Being a people of advanced ideas, they naturally desire a democratic government, created of the people, by the people, and for the people. The people are the only rulers. Their wishes are above those of the men composing government, and the latter must obey the constitution adopted by the assembly of representatives.
Those who now form the provisional government of the new republic, actuated by true patriotism, accept this obligation. They know that to establish a nation worthy of this age, and worthy of the heroic struggle of 1868, the people must be the only sovereign, and that such is the desire of all Cubans. For this reason, the provisional government, obedient to the constitution, and actuated by the exactions of common humanity, is compelled to permit a few exceptions to our last orders, which exceptions we shall now explain, in order that our countrymen, our enemies, and the world at large may know the honesty of our course.
The revolution, as is the case with all revolutions arising from popular indignation, had at its inception no other rulers than those dictated by the few military chiefs then in arms. A uniform method of procedure was impossible, on account of the different lines of action adopted by each province in rebellion. Among the dispensations of some of these chiefs are the special permissions they gave to a few sugar planters to continue grinding this year. To-day the revolution and its government permits no planters to grind, but they respect the dispensation above referred to, in accordance with Article 21 of our Constitution, which reads, "All the debts and promises of the military chiefs, from the beginning of this war to the time in which this Constitution is adopted, shall be respected as laws by the provisional government."
The government obeys the constitution, and this, then, is the only reason why some sugar estates are allowed to work during the present season; the permission is not, as our enemies say, the result of force of arms. The proprietors of these exempted estates have paid war contributions to our military chiefs, and upon no other estates is work possible. In the beginning, when the revolution had no other government than that of the military chiefs, the commander-in-chief prohibited the importation of food by towns occupied by the enemy. Now the provisional government, considering that families of non-combatants might become the victims of such a measure, has abolished it, and we allow the entrance into Spanish towns of some articles of commerce upon payment of an import duty.